"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."

Wealth, Honor, Pleasure, Pursuit

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"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin."

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"Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time."

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"When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially."

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"I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy."

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"The difference between a rich man and a poor man is that; a rich man only thinks of how to spend money while a poor man, thinks of how to make money."

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"You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy."

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"You can create financial abundance by having a positive relationship with money."

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"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."

Robin Sacredfire, Portuguese Philosopher

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"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."

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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

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"The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death."

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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

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"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin."

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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."

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